From: "Dummy Load" 

>  BS>>>> I talking about female names with you in ENET.SYSOP?
>  MH>>> I was just kidding :) Playing with
"Marina/Marine", since Marines
>  MH>>> are quite cool male guys :) "Marina" is
really female name, true :)
>  BS>> Aha! :-) Most names there is ending with a "a"
is mostly female
names.
>
>  MH> Aha. Especially "Misha" and "Serezha" :)
Don't beleive in the
>  MH> endings, they're too false :)
>
> Misha would sound like a female name in this country.
>

It would not. We use to transform/trancate first names in order to be
informal.
It's similar to english name William/Bill/Billy
So the names become shorte and in most cases take ending -a.
Misha = Mikhail.



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